“we are deliberately killing the immunocompromised, disabled, and chronically ill”

Awww

70 powerful Bay Area men were accused of sexual misconduct. What happened next? Since 2010, scores of prominent local men have faced allegations ranging from sexual harassment to rape. Most have returned to the highest echelons of public life.

"In the Bay Area, it turns out, it’s pretty hard to get permanently canceled. We found that 76% of the men we reviewed are professionally active, 41% are in the same or an elevated role since the allegations were made public, and only two of the 70 were incarcerated in prison."

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

Middle school band teacher just sent an email saying the cops are coming out to help with traffic for parade marching practice and I’m furious. I can think of at least 3-4 enthusiastic middle-aged pedalpalooza bike corkers who could be there on a 5-minute notice.

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My annual reminder that if you need to buy a window A/C this year do not simply buy the largest model you can afford. Energy Star has a sizing guide.

Why do you want an AC that is sized for your room?

Because an undersized A/C won't cool well and an oversized A/C will leave a space humid

Woe to me in 2026, stanning the pope and sending my (Jewish) kid to Catholic school.

“Jesus told us, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers,’ but woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” — Pope Leo XIV today in Cameroon

Seriously who is this man he’s saying confession to?

Just a reminder that JD Vance has been a Catholic for less time than Nacho Fries have been on the Taco Bell menu.

Why on earth is my health insurance playing Skynyrd as hold music?

How Alice Hamilton Waged a One-Woman Campaign to Get the Lead Out of Everything At first a crusader for workplace safety, the trained physician railed against the use of the toxic and ubiquitous material

I only learned of Alice Hamilton last year. A badass: “…she walked right up to Charles Kettering, head of research for General Motors, and declared, “You’re nothing but a murderer.”
www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/h...

my main beef with the nonprofit industrial complex is simply that I don’t wanna go to the event. Just got an email promoting a raffle to support having an event. let me give my five bucks and let it directly support giving people what they need! I’ll be at home in the bath.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view.

Workers I spoke to are pissed.

The part about the hairdresser making her look like Spock. 🖖🏻 live long and prosper Queen!

Helen Dewitt writes books about women who say “nah” but it turns out her true talent is saying nah herself paperpools.blogspot.com/2026/04/we-l...

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

Trump’s Holy War Abroad and at Home Investigative Journalist Sarah Posner on how the Christian right’s end times views are shaping U.S. foreign and domestic policies.

"This idea of Christians taking dominion, not only of America, but the world, has been a driving force of the Christian right’s view of foreign policy and their role in politics domestically."

Love 2 yap about the Galveston Plan at the anti-Zionist Seder.

Black and white photo of a longhaired tabby cat looking down at the photographer from the roof of a wooden structure in the woods.

Death from above. Photo from my collection, 1959.

Think about how every time a driver kills a pedestrian, the news reports it as if the car itself killed the pedestrian.

And how the news reports genAI in the exact same way, as if completely divorced from the people building it and using it for their bullshit.

It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but ...

“It is beneath my dignity to let myself be run over by any trolley, and particularly this trolley, burdened as it is by a cape and a stupid hat.”

I wrote for Defector about boycotting Harry Potter, the ‘safe’, kindly face of anti-trans politics:

defector.com/its-time-to-...

The Olympics Just Succumbed to a Ridiculous Gender Panic. Here’s Who It’s Really Going to Hurt. The move is both unnecessary and offensive.

I wrote for @slate.com about the new IOC sex testing policy and the intersex women directly targeted by it

I don't respect megachurches. the greed and corruption are issues but even worse they don't have anything like a massive emerald in a vault with esoteric wisdom etched into it, no bones encased in jewels and gold, no scroll containing the true face of the devil, things of this nature

A clay seder plate with a Googley eyed Moses sculpture in the middle and snakes around the edges. Definitely made by a child.

Happy Passover please enjoy the googley eyed Moses Seder plate I made when I was a kiddo that we still use every year hahaha

I consider the Supreme Court illegitimate.

Whatever decisions come from this court are illegitimate whether they go in the direction of something you think is legitimate.

Taiwan Dragon Boats in Harborplace marina

🎶reunited and it feels so good🎶

The Timbers and the USMNT are 2 big reasons to never rely on men for happiness

Mind your business

#nokingsatx